Calcot
Calçot is a type of green onion.

Calçot is a type of green onion. The name calçot comes from the Catalan language. The calçot from Valls (Catalonia) is a registered EU Protected Geographical Indication.
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Worth seeing in and around Calcot
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Elm Park
Elm Park was a football stadium in the West Reading district of Reading, Berkshire, England. The stadium was the home of Reading Football Club from 1896 to 1998, when the club moved to the new Madejski Stadium.
3.6 km · Football stadium · Wikipedia - 02Tilehurst Water Tower
Tilehurst Water Tower is a distinctive water tower in Tilehurst, a suburb of the English town and borough of Reading. It lies on a ridgeline at the highest point of both the borough and the town, with its base at 100 metres AMSL. Together with its own intrinsic height, this makes it a prominent landmark that can be seen from a considerable distance, especially when approaching Reading from the west along the M4 motorway.
1.3 km · water tower in Tilehurst, Reading, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Englefield House
Englefield House is an Elizabethan country house with surrounding estate at Englefield in the English county of Berkshire. The gardens are open to the public all year round on particular weekdays and the house by appointment only for large groups.
3.8 km · Elizabethan country house in Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Burghfield Lock
Burghfield Lock is a lock on the River Kennet at Burghfield in the English county of Berkshire. Burghfield Lock was built between 1718 and 1723 under the supervision of the engineer John Hore of Newbury, and this stretch of the river is now administered by the Canal & River Trust and known as the Kennet Navigation.
1.6 km · lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal in Burghfield, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Garston Lock
Garston Lock is a lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal. It is near the M4 motorway and near Reading, Berkshire, England.
1.1 km · lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal in Burghfield/Theale, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Church of St Mark, Reading
The Church of St Mark, Reading, is an Anglican church in Cranbury Road, Reading, Berkshire. It is part of the parish of St.
3.9 km · grade II listed church in Reading, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Calcot Park
Calcot Park is a country house, estate, and golf club in the English county of Berkshire. It is situated between Calcot and Tilehurst, suburbs of the town of Reading, and within the civil parish of Tilehurst.
1.3 km · country house in Tilehurst, West Berkshire, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Church of St Michael
St. Michael's Church, Tilehurst, is the parish church of Tilehurst in the English county of Berkshire.
1.8 km · church in Reading, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Wilder's Folly
Wilder's Folly is a folly and dovecote at Nunhide, near the village of Sulham in the English county of Berkshire.
1.4 km · brick tower in Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10Church of the Holy Trinity
Holy Trinity Church is a Church of England parish church in Theale, Berkshire, in the Diocese of Oxford. It was completed in 1832 in the Early English style, influenced by Salisbury Cathedral.
2.1 km · church in Theale, West Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Calcot
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 41 km · London Luton (LTN), 67 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 68 km
- Stations
- Theale railway station, 1.9 km · Tilehurst railway station, 3.7 km · Reading Green Park railway station, 3.8 km
- London → Calcot65 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £7–9
- Luton, Luton → Calcot66 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · £9–12
- London, Essex → Calcot65 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £7–9
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Calcot
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Calcot. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundThe local authority has published a cycle map, which shows off-road and low-traffic routes around the town.
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Next door to Calcot
Calcot is 6 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Thealevillage in Berkshire, England, United Kingdom1.9 km
- Burghfieldvillage in Berkshire, England, UK3.3 km
- Englefieldvillage and civil parish in Berkshire, England3.4 km
- Sulhama village located in West Berkshire, United Kingdom3.1 km
- Tidmarshvillage in Berkshire, England, UK3.9 km
- Holybrookcivil parish in Berkshire of England900 m